Center for Diabetes

The Center for Diabetes at Ellis Hospital helps individuals with diabetes improve their quality of life by providing education to patients and their families.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is a chronic disease that develops when the body doesn't make enough insulin, or doesn't use insulin properly. Insulin helps glucose, a form of sugar manufactured by the body from food, enter cells and make the energy the body needs. A person with diabetes must control the amount of glucose in the blood to avoid medical complications, such as loss of vision, heart attack, amputation or kidney disease.

Awareness & Symptoms

An estimated 21 million Americans have diabetes; however, approximately 6 million of these people don't even know it. In addition, it is estimated that 54 million Americans have "pre-diabetes" and most will develop diabetes within 10 years. The Center for Diabetes at Ellis Hospital strives to increase awareness of the symptoms of diabetes because too often they are overlooked.

Since early detection and treatment of diabetes are the keys to reducing your chances of developing serious medical complications, it's important to know the following symptoms of diabetes:

Frequent urination
Excessive thirst
Extreme hunger
Unusual weight loss
Increased fatigue
Irritability
Blurry vision

If you have one or more of these symptoms, the American Diabetes Association recommends that you make an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible.

How can we help?

The first step in prevention and treatment of diabetes is education. What you don't know about diabetes can hurt you. The Center for Diabetes offers many programs and services for people with diabetes and for those people at risk for diabetes. The center is staffed by Certified Diabetes Educators that will work with you on an individual basis to develop a self-management plan designed to meet your needs.

Programs/Services

Diabetes Day By Day
An outpatient self management education program offering individual and group sessions.

Sugar Free Gang Support Group
For children with diabetes and their families

Sugar Free Gang Kids Kamp
A summer day camp for children with diabetes mellitus

Gestational Diabetes Education Program

Insulin Pump Therapy Program

Adult Diabetes Support Group

"It’s All About ME"
A diabetes prevention program for people at risk for diabetes

Diabetes Main

For more information about the programs or to speak with one of our educators, please call the Center for Diabetes at 518.243.1696.



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